{"id":536495,"date":"2022-11-16T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T05:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=536495"},"modified":"2022-11-16T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T08:18:10","slug":"ev-battery-makers-race-to-develop-cheaper-cell-materials-skirting-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ev-battery-makers-race-to-develop-cheaper-cell-materials-skirting-china\/","title":{"rendered":"EV battery makers race to develop cheaper cell materials, skirting China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US and European startups are racing to develop new batteries using two abundant, cheap materials \u2014 sodium and sulfur \u2014 that could reduce China&#8217;s battery dominance, ease looming supply bottlenecks and lead to mass-market electric vehicles (EVs). <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s EVs run on lithium ion batteries \u2014 mostly made with lithium, cobalt, manganese and high-grade nickel, whose prices have soared. Western producers are struggling to catch up with their Asian rivals, and carmakers expect supply bottlenecks to hit car production around the middle of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>The EVs of the future \u2014 those arriving after 2025 \u2014 could shift to sodium ion or lithium sulfur battery cells that could be up to two-thirds cheaper than today&#8217;s lithium ion cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and European startups are racing to develop new batteries using two abundant, cheap materials \u2014 sodium and sulfur \u2014 that could reduce China&#8217;s battery dominance, ease looming supply bottlenecks and lead to mass-market electric vehicles (EVs). Today&#8217;s EVs run on lithium ion batteries \u2014 mostly made with lithium, cobalt, manganese and high-grade nickel, whose prices have soared. Western producers are struggling to catch up with their Asian rivals, and carmakers expect supply bottlenecks to hit car production around the middle of the decade. The EVs of the future \u2014 those arriving after 2025 \u2014 could shift to sodium ion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}